Essex
Platform: Commodore 64
Gametype: Undefined
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In this real time all-text game, a sightseeing tour of the Starship Essex turns into hard work when a dying agent recruits you to find a scientist and his formula, the only tool that will empower the Federation to defeat the alien Vollchons.

The hardbound book that comes with the game includes the instructions and a novella-length introduction to the plot.

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Description from the packaging:

Dreaded news from the Sirus sector! Like a recurring nightmare, the monstrous menace has returned. With the memory of their last blitz of terror all too fresh, the hideous Vollchon battle machines once more threaten the galaxy.
Only Professor Klein, genius astrophysicist, possesses the esoteric knowledge to foil their quest for domination. But Klein is in danger, feared dead! And only one starship stands the slightest chance of saving him. The call for help goes out to the far corner of Sirus sector- to the colossal Starship Essex.
What is an Electronic Novel?
An Electronic Novel picks-up where the printed word leaves off. A dynamic fictional universe begins- with you in the center of the action.
You start each electronic novel by reading the first chapters of an included book and then go directly to the screen of your home computer. The interactive adventure picks up on diskette, pulling you into an excitingly vivid, action-packed world. Your intuition and the choices you make determine what happens next, how the universe of the novel unfolds.

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Essex Manual
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 ESSEX
 Electronic Novel #2
 (Synapse 1985)
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Author: Bill Darrah
Programmers: Bill Darrah, William Mataga
C-64 version (8-19-85) by Joe Vierra

Password list
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The documentation for this game is not complete yet, but here is a
list of passwords to get you going. All passwords have been tested,
except for the ones in [brackets]. Please report any additional
passwords.

Word Line Page
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3 2 12 window
5 3 12 room
7 4 12 hearsay
8 5 12 lucia
6 8 12 short
6 1 13 this
1 4 13 transmission
8 5 13 paper
1 6 13 arm
1 10 13 jacket
2 1 14 down (d)
8 2 14 music
4 3 14 kerby
2 15 14 champagne
4 1 15 negative
4 5 15 lie
5 8 15 pocket
4 10 15 ensign
7 11 15 norton
4 1 16 klein
2 3 16 vollchon
4 4 16 headline
5 9 16 story
4 15 16 man
7 1 17 crew
4 3 17 desk
9 3 17 computer
1 9 17 kerby
1 12 17 screen
8 1 20 that
8 3 20 ignatz
1 5 20 deck
1 8 20 himself
2 9 20 trade
2 1 21 space
3 3 21 window
3 4 21 stars
9 9 21 ship
3 1 22 planet
2 4 22 terminal
1 6 22 microphone
6 1 27 paper
4 7 27 midcon
4 6 29 nancy
5 1 31 dee
5 1 32 cloud
8 5 32 neutron
3 13 32 power
1 2 35 fred
6 4 35 out
7 7 35 essex
1 1 36 martha
2 4 36 guy
8 1 39 machine
4 10 39 engineer
5 15 39 crystal
2 1 42 shake
1 4 42 crash
1 11 42 look
3 3 46 news
2 1 53 hangar
4 1 73 malphormalleh (malph)
5 1 91 you
7 7 91 move
7 1 92 [essex]
8 3 92 start
6 3 93 newspaper
3 4 93 rock
6 6 93 [queen]
3 5 94 here
1 11 94 chief
6 12 94 spy
5 1 95 room
1 2 95 ed

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End of the Project 64 etext of the Essex manual.

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